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When it comes to Disney, what do you think of?
Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White and the Mermaid. Flower castle prince monster. All parents in the world have stored their best wishes into reality in this fairy tale world.
On the back of the Sunshine Coast, a 2,000-foot amusement park in Florida, there is the same large shadow. In this moist and muddy land, countless plastic imitations grow wildly. Here, there is a group of "mud" that can't support the wall. Cheap and noisy hotels, adults are so lazy, watching the excitement is not too big, rude and aggressive, and the children are so good, not just swear words, but also lies.
If "Shameless" is a "little mourning", "Florida Paradise" is a mourning to the end, the film does not appear in the film to "save the personality" must talk about the word-hope.
Disney is a fairy tale world that makes dreams. Fairy tales convey hope. And in this purple castle, there is no hope, only despair.
But despair means darkness and gloom? The answer given by the director is no. When despair becomes life, it will never be full of suffering and pain. Because of life, it's a mixed blessing.
Sean Baker put the camera on the shoulders of the child, looking up at the world inside and outside of Florida Park as an equal, even looking up, and a shadowy society of flesh and blood appeared on the screen vividly.
Not every impoverished family necessarily has a temperate, hardworking, dedicated Chen Xiaozheng. When we turn the camera we look down on, when we give up the education strategy of "correcting life", when we change the "children of the poor", every crow is working hard to become a phoenix. The perspective will be opened, and a more real world, although cruel, but also more beautiful.
The director did not entrain private goods to put any values and solutions to the problem, but at the same time he must not be objective, because he truly touched the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the marginalized people, so he is more affectionate, loves and hates this group of lively people. , He put all of them on the screen, and made you have two hours of intimate contact with them without comment. At this time, it is difficult for you to judge their lifestyle, whether it is right or wrong. You will only cry and laugh for them, and finally can't smile.
The rainbow is the rainbow, she is not sad or not, but the laughter of the children dyed her the color of joy.
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The film mostly uses fragments to connect a simple story. The dependent mother and daughter share the leftovers of their lives at cheap motel. Friends who work in fast food restaurants share the leftovers of their lives. They live by reselling cheap perfumes. After the striptease mother Halley fell out with a good friend, Halley had to start prostitution, which caused the Child Welfare Administration to send someone to take his daughter Moonee away.
The mother and daughter, in the anti-routine narrative, gallop all the way. The mother was not worried about her daughter's livelihood, and she tried to pretend to find an "honest person" to be the successor to build a complete family; the daughter did not get out of the mud and did not get tainted, so she was stubborn and stubborn.
The only male character is the kind-hearted Bobby. He has acted as the "father" role of Halley and Moonee at one time. Although strong, he knows respect and is willing to communicate and listen. This is a very comfortable writing of a female story.
The film uses fragmented narratives and shots that are too fragmented to make the actor's state achieve a high degree of real beauty without a strong purpose. So I want to find what the director wants to say? I talked about everything, and it seemed that I didn't say anything. Using details to piece together, convince the audience that this plastic fake amusement park world is not only a fairy tale but also a life.
Detour to the back of the amusement park and peek at the fireworks to celebrate your birthday. They think that other people's fireworks are their own.
Sitting under the slogan "Learn to Share", what is waiting is for charity. In the eyes of children, learning to share is synonymous with accepting charity.
"My mother said that I have asthma and I have to eat ice cream to relieve it." He has a trick that makes people laugh.
The mother and her daughter sold cheap perfumes and even begged. In Moonee's eyes, this is not a speculation, but an adventure. If it is difficult to buy and sell, go begging, which also requires technology.
Nonsense is never useful, they can only go down this road by themselves. Halley carried Moonee on his back without saying a word.
The director also makes good use of backlighting to make the fairy tale more prominent. Being in the shadows, but always facing the sun, just like Moonee's favorite tree, "It's fallen, but it's still grown."
In the afterglow of the setting sun, Halley held Moonee's hand.
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If the greatest success of the film lies in the documentary lens language and fairy-tale composition and color, then the actors are an important pillar for the achievement of the film's documentary style and fairy tale style. Naturally carved acting skills make people ignore the existence of the lens, and the innocent and pure eyes bring a dreamy free color.
It must be mentioned that Moonee played by Brooklynn. She has contributed genius acting skills, the whole 2/3 of the main scene is placed on this little actor, but she has contributed 200% of the dramatic tension and real power.
At the meeting, director Sean Baker praised Brooklynn non-stop, "Before Brooklynn filmed the scene of the final collapse, she ran up to me and told me,'I'm ready to cry. I thought about it if this time The last time I saw my best friend, how sad I will be', this actor, we should call her an actor (laughs), skip the mobilization of personal emotions, such as thinking about the dead pet, thinking about the experience of being taught. .... Instead, I jumped directly into the inner world of the character. She really shocked me and moved everyone...
It's just a shot of this crying astonishingly heavenly.
And this cute close-up of trying to eat a fork.
The client who met his mother in the bathroom was horrified but dared not to show his eyes.
Halley's actor Bria Vinaite, the director said frankly at the meeting: "I met her on instgram. I think her tattoo and image are very suitable for this role. At the time she thought I was a stalker, and she didn't believe me. But. Later, it turned out that the sparks she produced by herself and all the small actors made half of the film."
A girl who has not grown up, a kind mother who has a sense of responsibility and doesn’t know how to be responsible, a girlfriend who values love and righteousness, and a striptease girl who has a lot of swear words, if the role of Halley is really as the director originally imagined, choose a charming one. Glamorous actress, I'm afraid I don't know if there will be such a rare free and easy way.
Finally, Oscar nominated for best supporting role, William Kam. He is the patriarch of the old children in Florida in the true sense. In this paradise lost, there are always troublesome, easy-going, and disobedient older children and children. The society has not given them enough time and resources to accumulate capital or even the motivation to compete. Social workers are obviously not very useful. They can only rely on the purple castle that Bobby constantly repairs to maintain their devastated lives. This work is so meticulous and powerless.
Bobby was furious because of the children's pranks and disrupted his work, but he would also participate in their hide-and-seek.
Will tolerate children eating ice cream indoors, but will also sweep them out because of dirty floors.
Halley’s visitors will be forcibly restricted, just because she is afraid that she will be in the quagmire. She will drive away the mother and daughter for the room fee, and will come to the hotel next door to make up the difference without hesitation. He would light a cigarette at the door when he was unable to help Halley keep Moonee. The weakest moment of a man.
There are also many small actors and community parents who play small actors. The life-like performances and lines have played down the drama conflicts, but deepened the emotions and sorrows behind them, and amplified the power of resonance. You will think of such a tired face, a pair of tearful eyes, and a smile that you have seen in life. The training of all actors and the mastery of acting skills are based on the director's skillful realism creative style.
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Finally, let's talk about this somewhat special director. The director of the meeting was wearing a black suit, and he talked about the details of the shooting in a lively and talkative manner. The most he said was "natural". There are not too many presuppositions, no intention to express deliberately, and not much ambition to indoctrinate, which leads to the documentary narrative techniques and realistic acting skills of the whole film. And this naturally natural characteristic is mostly attributed to one word-poor.
Sean Baker, a realist style genius, his focus is mostly on marginal figures and issues in American society.
From "Takeaway" which describes the Chinese American society, to "Orange" which describes the Hollywood dream of transgender people, to this "Florida Paradise" which focuses on the life of low-income and unemployed people. He has been fighting on the front line of the minority society, but there is not much meaning to resist and criticize. He follows, then records, and carries the most beautiful side of each group.
A poor director often has lofty ambitions, but few have turned this ambition into reality. Some people wait for funds and investors to favor, and some people take the initiative to compromise and create, saving the country and saving the first pot of gold. Sean Baker is different. He always takes the initiative, especially when the funds are not enough, he still keeps shooting.
He even shot an 88-minute movie with Iphone 5s, which even made him famous, with awards flooding in. In addition to the perfect combination of creativity and technology, this work also reflects the director's unique perspective and humanistic care in terms of script. The laughter and cursing of transgender people analyze the life of not being paid attention to in the comedy style of drama, and it is shown to the majority who are unwilling to tear apart the social devastation.
He is never afraid of taking risks. Even in "Florida Paradise", he also chose to shoot this scene of running towards the castle in Disneyland with iPhone 6S. Because if you want to use shooting equipment, you must apply to Disney, and the iPhone can take advantage of the loopholes. This adventure also brings us a new aesthetic attempt. The film, perhaps, should be a great fusion of different media, lowering the threshold and technical requirements to restore the most real material and spiritual world.
Sean Baker's "Florida Paradise" has fought a beautiful battle this time. It not only created a potential aesthetic experiment style, but also became more popular with audiences in narrative and movie viewing experience. In the future, directors who have doubled their worth will also accept the test of countless small-cost famous directors. Will the intervention of capital destabilize the director’s lens on marginal characters and society, and how to better integrate technology and content. , Does the experimental aesthetic style continue? Everything, let us wait and see.
The original text was published on the WeChat public account of "Muweier". This children's film that goes to the end is so touching.
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2018.8.17
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